Thursday, July 12, 2007

Joel Goebel relives: f.u.c.k.u.Germany

The following is a response to Chinese by a German comany that put "f.u.c.k.u.china" words on its logo. You could understand that why Joel Goebel was a German. Germans are really propaganda genius. I would take it for granted that Germans welcome all of us say "f.u.c.k.u.Germany" since stands for “the fascinating & urban collection: kiss you Germany”.

Dear Sirs,

Here some explanation concerning a logo we used for a special and limited T-shirt edition produced last season.

On this specific T-shirt collection we had printed the letters f.u.c.k.u.china.

The PHILIPP PLEIN Int. AG company would like to explain what lies behind this abbreviation and give the following statement:

We would like to specify that we never intended to hurt or offend the citizens of China .

On the contrary, with this collection we wanted to thank China because it gives us the possibility to produce some articles of our collection on a competitive price basis.

In addition, the man craft we found in China is very precise and leads to a good quality of the clothes.

This is a great satisfaction for us and for our end customers.

We are a young and dynamic company and this is why we intituled this limited T-shirt edition “fascinating and urban” collection and “kiss” is a way to thank the Chinese savoir-faire.

Since we have been pointed out that the message is not clear and leads to controversy, these T-shirts - that were already limited to start with (max. 100 T-shirts have been produced) - have been retired from the market.

Once again, we are sincerely sorry if the abbreviation of the logo has been misinterpreted. We never wanted to offend anyone.